Cinnamon is a desktop shell. It is a fork of GNOME Shell, initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint. It provides a usable user environment based on the desktop metaphor, like GNOME 2. Cinnamon uses Muffin, a fork of the GNOME 3 window manager Mutter, as its window manager from Cinnamon 1.2 onwards” (Wikipedia) Cinnamon […]

Ok guys, a firewall can be a software or a piece of hardware, but what does it do and why do we need one? Ok , you got a brain, right? Use it! Firewall is a word which can be split in to other words (fire + wall). I think that you understand. Not ye? […]

Chris Lee, Director of Product for Firefox OS has announced many updates being made on the Firefox OS phones. This Firefox OS Update adds new features, and significant performance improvements. It also provides support for a number of new languages with more than 15 languages supported. Firefox OS Update (1.1) gives you the chance to […]

Jitsi is an open source and multi platform audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger written in Java. It supports some of the most popular instant messaging and telephony protocols such as SIP, Jabber/XMPP (and hence Facebook and Google Talk), AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger. Jitsi is also considered a good alternative to Skype. Installing Jitsi […]

LibreOffice is a free open source suite growing fast all over the world. It can be installed in many linux distributions and is compatible with other major office suites applications. Libre office suite includes the following components: Writer, Math, Impress, Draw, Base, Chart, and Calc. There are many volunteers helping in Libre office development and […]

About a week ago my friend asked me to help him with some information about some good cd/dvd apps in Ubuntu, because he was planning to give a try to Linux. This guy is a windows user, but the software he uses in Windows costs so much he can not afford anymore. So, why not […]

Bootchart is an application that will generate a graph of your system boot sequence. This graph will show you the CPU and Disk Usage during the boot sequence and display the total boot up time in seconds. Using this graph you can easily find what applications are loading at boot time, what applications needs to […]

OpenKM is an Open Source, Web-based DMS (Document Management System) that can be used as an alternative for commercial DMS solutions such as Sharepoint, Hummingbird and Documentum etc. OpenKM is available in three editions such as Community(Free), Cloud and Professional. You can find the detailed comparison of three versions here. It supports multiple operating systems […]